Tag: thinking

Hi guys! Amy here 🙂 “Life or death” outcomes… mentally, physically, spiritually etc… are often related to how we perceive and process a matter and the meaning we attach to it. The power we have to choose what we believe is more mighty than we know. Have you ever heard this story…

Many years ago, a man was traveling across the country by sneaking from one freight train to the next. One night he climbed into what he thought was a boxcar. He closed the door, which automatically locked shut and trapped him inside. When his eyes adjusted to the light, he realized he was inside a refrigerated boxcar, and he became aware of the intense, freezing cold. He called for help and pounded on the door, but all the noise he made from the inside of the car failed to attract anyone’s attention. After many hours of struggle, he lay down on the floor of the railroad car.

As he tried to fight against the freezing cold, he scratched a message on the floor explaining his unfortunate, imminent death. Late the next day, repairmen from the railroad opened the door and found the dead man inside. Though the man had all the appearance of having frozen to death, the truth was the repairmen had come to fix the broken refrigerator unit in that car. Most likely the temperature of the railroad car had never fallen below fifty degrees during the night. The man had died because he thought he was freezing to death.
Perhaps nothing is more powerful in the world than the human mind. Your mind matters, and how you choose to think will have a major influence about nearly everything that happens in your life. The Bible says, “As he [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7, NKJV). Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Man becomes what he thinks about all day long.”
Powerful eh?! You are more mighty than you know. I mean your Heavenly Daddy merely spoke a word and it was!!! Just sayin… We are made in our Papa’s image and he has given us the ability to think and create with our words and actions. Choose to seek Him and His perspective over every matter at hand. That way you won’t get stuck listening and falling prey to the effects of FEAR a.k.a “False Evidence Appearing Real”.
Love you all much! -Amy<3

Prophetic Ministry will only reflect to others what you have become. If you’re still grappling with an orphan mentality, then you will have a difficult time separating your wounded-ness from the pure word of Papa flowing through you to others. It’s time to go on a nice, long, relaxing vacation if need be, in order to have The Heart of The Father massaged deep into your psyche. – John Meyer

Tell My people it’s time to dream again. I am breathing My colors back into you. Life back into you. I know the colors of your last decade were full of gray…subdued and daunting. Yes, it was a battleground, yes, it was a testing ground, yes, you had to part with things and suffer loss at times. But know this… I Myself am drawing you out! I, Myself am breathing fresh life into you. I haven’t forgotten the promises I made to you in the beginning. Surely will I not be faithful on My part?

I had to test you. I had to try you to count you worthy and honorable for what I’m about to bestow upon you. Yes, this time, you shall not take the glory by your own means of the flesh. You have learned in this last decade to completely rely on Me. And that is what I needed, to fully trust you with what’s up ahead. I need soldiers who will trust My every word and follow through no matter what it looks like. This is pleasing to Me.

Can I trust you? Are you in? The Smokescreen of your life that once was, is beginning to clear. Soon you will see the path ahead of you. Land Ho My pilgrims! Your trip at sea is coming to a close! It’s time to cast your nets. It’s time to come up on shore. Bring everything I’ve taught you out at “Sea”. You’ve learned to follow Me. You’ve yielded your strength and will to Me. Now watch!

Look ahead! Look what I have waiting for you! Oh yes, You are going to love it! All the things I’ve taken you through were meant to bring you to this moment. Oh, how you’ll praise Me and thank Me for My wisdom and order. I love you, My children! You’re about to embark on the harvest I’ve prepared you for. Lift up your eyes! You’re about to be re-energized! Grab your things and get ready. The suddenlies are arriving NOW!

When all seems to be going well, suddenly there is an immense attack from the enemy? Why?…

There is a spiritual reality that most Christians have experienced, but conversely, most Christians are blithely unaware. It occurs during the time of spiritual promotion. Oh yes, we do get promoted—if so be we pass the tests that allow promotion. How dull it would be if we did not grow in Christian maturity. But—just as in secular schooling, we must be tested.
All of the tests leading to a higher level of service do not come at one time. We grow incrementally in being able to accept more responsibility and thereby in being endowed with more authority.

AT FIRST
At first, on a certain level of service, we may be scrambling to complete the spiritual workload and losing a battle here and there to the much more powerful demons that attack Christians on that new and higher level. However, after a while, with the Lord’s help, we begin to handle the spiritual workload on that level. Also, we grow in wisdom, knowledge and understanding concerning the enemy’s wiles at that level and are able to either side-step them or deal with them more easily.
In the vernacular, we speak of this stabilizing as “getting on top of it” or “getting it under our belt” (referring to a time when the clothing was long and loose and therefore needed to be tucked up into the belt to unencumber the feet for battle). I am not talking about the prelude to an increased anointing here. We will take that later. We are discussing the period of transition as one advances into greater responsibility and subsequently greater authority.

SETTING THE STAGE
Now let me set the stage (and I will need to use everyday examples to give clarity to that which is- actually- spiritual phenomena).
Let us suppose that you have been serving the Lord in a certain area for a period of time. During this time you have grown and matured. Now-without you knowing it-the Lord intends to promote you—that is—to give you more responsibility and thereby, more authority. What happens?

THE GATHERING OF LIGHT
More light begins to gather around you in the spiritual realm. God is adding to you and you begin to shine more brightly. This, of course, makes you a much more yummy morsel to the demons whose job it is to stop you.
Years ago I remember asking Bob Jones (the prophet) why the demons seemed to know what we ourselves did not know about our advancement. He told me at that time — “because of the light.”

MOVING OUT
When we are moving out of our usual level of protection—that bubble or shield that has been built up through repeated battles and hard won victories—begins to thin. We are moving out of a hard won “zone” and therefore are more vulnerable.
Now, most of the time, we do not know this. But the demons do. They attack before we know we are in transition and before we have the experience of battling the more powerful demons at that higher level.

EXAMPLES
Let me give you three real, live examples. A few months ago our prayer team was asked to pray for three Christians that had been damaged in just such a transition into higher authority:

1. One is a young, righteous pastor whose anointing in preaching has increased ten-fold. Likewise, his congregational numbers have increased miraculously—and, after the kernel of the congregation moved from location to location for years, the Lord has looked upon them with favor and given to them a new and truly lovely church home. Before the congregation could move into their new church home, this pastor was caught in a freak and deadly combination car and truck accident. He had to lay his bike down under the wheels of the log loaded 18 wheeler. The Lord rescued him with only minor damage to his heel and equally mild damage to his bike. The enemy was trying to stop the pastor from reaping the reward for his faithfulness and to stop the move of the Spirit to which all indicators are pointing.

2. Another is a dear Christian lady that was teaching prayer in a church in another state. She had written a book on prayer and was preparing to travel to yet another state to teach prayer to those in a mega-church. This church was not known for prayer—for it had stressed other gifts. However, they were ready and willing to learn and were very excited to add their voices to others standing before the Lord in intercession. Suddenly, she was hit with something mysterious and was given a 1% chance of survival. She did survive and is now regaining her strength. I’m sure she was pulled through by the prayers of those very people she had been teaching to pray. The enemy was trying to deprive the body of Christ of a seasoned prayer warrior and a mature teacher of intercession. Praise God, he did not succeed.

3. The third is a very gifted teenager who had just arrived at college. Already he had the gift of healing—which was beginning to increase. At the beginning of the school year he fell and hit his head—eventuating in a concussion. He was sent home to rest, but that same day he fell again—hitting his head again—and giving him a second concussion. He was beleaguered with cluster migraine headaches twenty-four hours a day for months. But he refused to stop going to church or to stop praying for those who needed healing. All manner of gifts are increasing in the young man and he is being healed. Praise God. He is part of the next generation of powerful ministers.
The reason I have given you three accounts is to show you people who had been used by God on one level and are now moving into a higher level of authority in their field or spiritual calling. Since these periods of spiritual advancement happen with all of us—what do we need to learn?

1. Be on the alert.
2. If you sense any change at all in the anointing you are carrying, begin to tread more carefully.
3. We need to ask others to cover us in prayer and we, in turn, need to cover others.
We do not want the enemy to take out of service those needed in the end-time battles. If we are aware of this period of vulnerability in our lives and the lives of others we can close ranks to lessen the enemy’s infiltration and hinder his full-out attack.